RESOLUTIONS. [No. 1.] Joint resolution authorizing and directing the payment of the salaries of the officers and employees of Congress for the month of December eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Dec. 17, 1886. December sala Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, ries, officers, etc., authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employees of the Sen- of Congress to he ate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month 1886. of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, on the twentieth day of paid December 20, said month. Approved, December 17, 1886 [No. 2.] Joint resolution directing copies of the official letter-books of the executive department of the State of North Carolina to be furnished to said State. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is directed to cause to be made out duly certified copies of the official letter-books of the executive department of the State of North Carolina now in the War Department, and to be delivered to the governor of North Carolina, retaining the originals in the War Department. Approved, December 20, 1886. Dec. 20, 1886. livered to. North Carolina. Copies of letterbooks to be de [No. 3.] Joint resolution relative to certain papers in the State Department by error. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, directed to deliver to the person justly entitled to the possession thereof the papers in the claim of the late John Potts, a British subject residing in Mexico, presented to the United States and Mexican Claims Commission through the agency of a Mr MacManus, also a resident of Mexico, said papers containing certain original documents issued by the Mexican Government on the collectors of customs at sundry ports for the payment of moneys to said John Potts, and which moneys he had loaned to the Mexican Government; the said papers having been deposited in the State Department by error. Approved, December 21, 1886. Dec. 21, 1886. partment of State John Potts. Papers in De to be delivered. (643) Jan. 3, 1887. [No. 4.] Joint resolution for the relief of William B. Isaacs and Company. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States William B. Isaacs of America in Congress assembled, That the petitions and claim of William and Company. B. Isaacs and Company for certain assets claimed to belong to them, as successors in interest of certain banks of Virginia described therein, as having been taken by the Government of the United States in the month of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, with the accompanying papers now on file in the House of Representatives, being Miscellaneous Document Number Five, second session Forty-fifth Congress, Claim referred to be referred to the Court of Claims for judicial ascertainment of the facts; that wherever papers or affidavits are made or executed by persons deceased, not interested in the cause, they shall be considered as evidence by the court and given such weight as they may deserve, but wherever the affidavits are of living persons the evidence shall be taken in the usual way, subject to cross examination on behalf of the United States; that the court shall fully adjudicate upon the rights of the parties and the ownership of the property described in the petitions, and, as matter of law, to whom it should be paid, and report said findings of fact and law to Congress for consideration. The said petitioners shall not be barred of relief in the said court by reason of any act of limitations. Court of Claims. Approved, January 3, 1887. Jan. 19, 1887. [No. 5.] Joint resolution appointing James B. Angell a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States James B. Angell, of America in Congress assembled, That the existing vacancy in the Board Appointed regent of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class "other than Smithsonian În- members of Congress," shall be filled by the appointment of James B. Angell, of the State of Michigan, in place of John Maclean, deceased. Approved, January 19, 1887. stitution. Feb. 23, 1887. [No. 6.] Joint resolution providing for the payment of per diem laborers in Government employ on "Memorial" or "Decoration Day" and the Fourth day of July of each year as on other days. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Per diem em- of America in Congress assembled, That all per diem employees of the ployees. Government, on duty at Washington or elsewhere in the United States, Allowed pay for shall be allowed the day of each year, which is celebrated as "MemoDecoration Day rial" or "Decoration Day" and the fourth of July of each year, as holand Fourth of July. iday, and shall receive the same pay as on other days. Approved, February 23, 1887. Feb. 23, 1887. Preamble. [No. 7.] Joint resolution to provide for tl e settlement of accounts with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company. Whereas, by act of Congress approved February twenty-seventh, eight- Whereas the said act not making any appropriation or provision for the return of any money, no settlement was made with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company as contemplated by said act, and its accounts still remain unadjusted and unsettled: Therefore, Accounts to be Appropriation to Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War and the Mobile and Ohio Attorney-General be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, Railroad Comjointly, to adjust and finally settle the accounts of the United States pany. with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company for property received from settled. the United States in the years eighteen hundred and sixty-five and Vol. 18, p. 335. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as provided for in the act of Congress approved February twenty-seventh eighteen hundred and seventy-five. SEC. 2. That when said accounts have been adjusted, if it shall be found that the adjustment upon the basis herein provided for requires the re- pay amount found turn of any money heretofore paid by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company on said accounts, the Secretary of War be, and he hereby, authorized and directed to issue his warrant on the Treasury of the United States in favor of said company for the amount of money so to be returned; and the amount necessary for such purpose is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 23, 1887. due. [No. 8.] Joint resolution authorizing and directing the Department of Justice to transfer certain rooms which have been occupied by the United States courts to the city of Jackson, Mississippi. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Department of Justice be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer and relinquish to the city of Jackson, State of Mississippi, all the right, title, and claim of the United States to the rooms in what is described as the Town Hall building in said city which have been used for the United States courts and the officials thereof, under a deed executed on the fifteenth day of February, anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-five, it having been a condition of the deed that the rooms were to be used exclusively for the purposes above specified, and the same having been entirely abandoned by the said courts and the officials thereof, a new building having been erected by the Government for the convenience and occupancy of said United States courts, and the Attorney-General having decided that the aforementioned rooms in the Town Hall could not be used by the Government, under said deed, for any other purposes than those specified in the grant. Approved, February 28, 1887. [No. 9.] Joint resolution to provide for printing the Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Feb. 28, 1887. Animal Indus Third annual report to be printed. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 'That there be printed thirty-five thousand copies of the Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Animal Indus- try Bureau. try for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, of which ten thousand copies shall be for the use of the members of the Senate and twenty thousand copies for the use of the members of the House of Representatives, and five thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture; the illustrations to be executed under the supervision of the Public Printer, in accordance with the directions of the Joint Committee on Printing, the work to be subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Agriculture. Approved, February 28, 1887. C. Mar. 3, 1887. [No. 10.] Joint resolution authorizing the printing of two thousand five hundred extra copies of the Report of the Health Officer of the District of Columbia. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Health officer, D. of America in Congress assembled, That the Public Printer be, and is Extra copies of hereby, authorized to print two thousand five hundred extra copies of report to be the Annual Report of the Health Officer of the District of Columbia; printed. one hundred for the use of the Senate, three hundred and fifty for the use of the House of Representatives, and two thousand and fifty for the use of the said Health Officer of the District. Approved, March 3, 1887. Mar. 3, 1887. ney. John Arnot, [No. 11.] Joint resolution providing for printing_eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Abraham Dowdney, John Arnot, Jr., Lewis Beach, William T. Price William H. Cole and Austin F. Pike. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Eulogies on of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed, of the eulogies Abraham Dowd- delivered in Congress, upon the late Abraham Dowdney, John Arnot, jr., Lewis Beach, Jr., and Lewis Beach, late Representatives in the Forty-ninth Congress William T. Price from the State of New York, and William T. Price, late a RepresentaWilliam H. tive from the State of Wisconsin, and William H. Cole, late a RepreCole to be printed. sentative from the State of Maryland, twelve thousand five hundred copies each, of which three thousand copies of each shall be for the use of the Senate and nine thousand five hundred each for the use of the House of Representatives. and Eulogies on Austin F. Pike. Appropriation for portraits. SEC. 2. That there be also printed of the eulogies delivered in Congress upon the late Austin F. Pike a Senator from New Hampshire, twelve thousand copies, of which four thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate and eight thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives. SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to have printed portraits of the said Abraham Dowdney, John Arnot, Jr., Lewis Beach, William T. Price, William H. Cole, and Austin F. Pike, to accompany said eulogies, and for the purpose of engraving and printing said portraits the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1887. Mar. 3, 1887. land donated for military purposes. [No. 12.] Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to accept certain lands, and so forth, near Chicago, Illinois. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Chicago, Ill. of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he Acceptance of is hereby, authorized and directed to accept deed and conveyance of a certain tract of land, when the State of Illinois shall cede jurisdiction of the same to the United States, described as follows: Known as the Highwood tract, in Lake County, Illinois, containing five hundred and ninety-eight and one-half acres, lying on Lake Michigan, north of the city of Chicago, and distant twenty five miles; this land being a tract donated by the Commercial Club of Chicago (represented by John A. Doane, C. B. Farwell, and Alexander P. McClurg) for military purposes: Provided, That the title proposed to be conveyed shall be approved by the Attorney-General of the United States as sufficient to vest the feesimple of the said above described land in the United States, free of incumbrance, before the Secretary of War shall formally accept the Proviso. Title. same. Approved, March 3, 1887. |